One week ago today, Jesse and Smileyjohn arrived in NYC.
They landed at 7:30am.
By 9am, we were three beers deep; it was going to be that kind of weekend.
We started off on the Lower East Side.
Then hopped on the train.
We toured Times Square. (It was Jesse's first time to NYC as an adult.)
And stumbled upon the Central Park Zoo.
The monkys played.
The po-bears sleeped...
The snow leopard hunted.
And pooped.
Oooh! Another monky!
We saw poison treefrogs.
A rainforest habitat...
Piranhas...
Giant leaf-cutter ants...
And BATS!
Nestled at the edge of the park and set against the buildings of the Upper East Side, the Zoo is such a beautiful place.
Even squirrels...and pigeons - the vermin of the sky, look pretty when you're at the zoo.
It also helped that is was a gloriously sunny and not-that-cold day.
The seals were loving it!
After stopping for a poo-break in some rando coffeeshop, (sorry, but impromptu pootime and Jesse's irritable bowels were recurring themes over the weekend) we stopped in at Pieces for $2 beers.
We returned home for a much-needed nap.
And then it was off to Kabab Factory for a boozy curryfest.
It was SUCH a fun dinner.
By the end we were trashed and singing "Gaston" from Beauty and the Beast...
...and some of my favorite people from each coast had bonded forever.